Prey
Prey [1]
prā ( בּז , baz , טרף , ṭereph , שלל , shālāl ): "Prey" is frequent in the Old Testament, chiefly as the translation of baz , "spoil," "plunder" ( Numbers 14:3 , Numbers 14:11; Deuteronomy 1:39; Isaiah 10:6 , etc.); of ṭereph , "prey of wild beasts," "torn thing" ( Genesis 49:9; Numbers 23:24; Job 4:11 , etc.); of malḳōah , "a taking" ( Numbers 31:11 , etc.; Isaiah 49:24 , Isaiah 49:25 ); of shālāl , "spoil" or "booty" ( Judges 5:30 twice; Judges 8:24 , Judges 8:25; Isaiah 10:2 , etc.). Mahēr - shālāl - ḥash - baz (the Revised Version margin "The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth") was the symbolical name given to a son of Isaiah ( Isaiah 8:1 , Isaiah 8:3 ). "Prey" does not occur in the New Testament, but is found in the Apoc: 1 Esdras 8:77, "for our sins ... were given up ... for a prey" ( pronomḗ ); Judith 9:4; 16:5; 1 Macc 7:47; Ecclesiasticus 27:10 ( thḗra ); Judith 5:24 ( katábrōma ).
In the Revised Version (British and American) shālāl is generally translated "spoil" ( Judges 5:30; Judges 8:24 , Judges 8:25; Isaiah 10:2 , etc.), while, conversely, "prey" (noun and verb) is occasionally substituted for "spoil," "booty" ( Numbers 31:32 , ere). See Booty; Spoil .
